The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS

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The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS 191

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:32PM from the aka-the-kenn-starr-steamroller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many US and Canadian ISPs thought they were under a massive denial of service attack yesterday — traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America. Turns out that the traffic was due to live streaming of the U.S. Open and Tiger Woods nail-biting victory."

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naming this effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by COMON$ ( 806135 ) * writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:34PM (#23843725) Journal

tigerd
Tigerdotted
I Got wooded?
ok /.ers you can do better. I need to update my ids logs to take this into consideration ;)

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You learn something new every day (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary&yahoo,com> on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:36PM (#23843759) Journal

Who knew that there was a professional nail-biter's competition, let alone that Tiger Woods won it?

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Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

by truthsearch ( 249536 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:36PM (#23843767) Homepage Journal

You mean it wasn't due to Firefox downloads? Guess it's not yet as mainstream as I'd like it to be. :)

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Re:Israel we bless thee HEIL HITLER (Score:3, Funny)

by Broken scope ( 973885 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:37PM (#23843775) Homepage

All that an you couldn't even bother to do a "first post" quote.

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Re:naming this effect? (Score:3, Funny)

by belgar ( 254293 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:37PM (#23843779) Homepage

Opened?

/got nothing

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Tiger effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:38PM (#23843807)

Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?

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Re:naming this effect? (Score:2, Funny)

by Doddman ( 953998 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:38PM (#23843809)

Tigerslashwooddot effect

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Re:Well that doesn't explain... (Score:3, Funny)

by superphreak ( 785821 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:42PM (#23843909) Homepage

7-9mbps down, 512up, $30 :D Cox, Oklahoma City (although the city itself is terrible)

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Oops. (Score:3, Funny)

by WK2 ( 1072560 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:42PM (#23843915) Homepage

traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America.

Oh sorry, that was me. I downloaded several seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Seriously, hundreds of gigabits across North America is a problem? 500 gigabits is approximately 62 GB.

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Nail-biting victory? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:45PM (#23843963)

I find it hard to believe that there's anything that can possibly be nail-biting about watching golf.

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firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by mattwarden ( 699984 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:49PM (#23844033)

Just thought of something. Was mozilla.org hosting US Open highlight clips yesterday or something? Because that would explain a lot.

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Re:Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

by truthsearch ( 249536 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @03:58PM (#23844237) Homepage Journal

Joke --------> *whoosh* O <--- You --|-- | / \

(Credit [seenonslash.com] and credit [slashdot.org])

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Re:naming this effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo ( 1000167 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:00PM (#23844267)

What does Final Fantasy 3 have to do with this? You leave that ragtag crew out of it!

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Re:Office bandwith (Score:5, Funny)

by corbettw ( 214229 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:01PM (#23844299) Journal

there seemed to be a lot of people with comfy offices a lot of bandwidth and a love of golf back then.
Really? You don't say?

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Re:naming this effect? (Score:2, Funny)

by oldspewey ( 1303305 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:12PM (#23844481)

Fourputted?

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Re:Nail-biting victory? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:16PM (#23844531)

Did you recently receive a raise and a comfy office?

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Re:Tiger effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) * writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:20PM (#23844607) Homepage Journal

Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?
Oh, FSCKING JEBUS. Why does some nitwit have to make everything about Apple?!

Hint to Steve Jobs genuflecting tards: No, life is not all about Apple. No go outside and get some fresh air. Now.

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Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? (Score:3, Funny)

by maxume ( 22995 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:23PM (#23844627)

It isn't real clear that he started out fitting into society...

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Re:Better Days... (Score:2, Funny)

by maxume ( 22995 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:30PM (#23844739)

It's actually quite healthy to like yourself just a little bit less than that.

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Re:Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

by antdude ( 79039 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:05PM (#23845353) Homepage Journal

Ouch, the guy's poor legs.

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Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:09PM (#23845421)

Now he doesn't really fit in with society any more and spends time in and out of prison.
Does he really fit in there?
In [Soviet] prison, the question is what fits in you?

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Re:Nail-biting victory? (Score:3, Funny)

by mgblst ( 80109 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:11PM (#23845459) Homepage

...and they're almost exclusively in high definition.

I don't know about you, but if I don't like something, seeing it in HD isn't exactly going to help much.

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Re:Nail-biting victory? (Score:5, Funny)

by drew ( 2081 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:34PM (#23845799) Homepage

No, you don't get it. By watching in HD you can actually watch the grass grow while watching the golf game, so you get double the enjoyment.

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Re:Oops. (Score:5, Funny)

by Da Fokka ( 94074 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:45PM (#23845965) Homepage

The kiloclit

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Re:Tiger effect? (Score:5, Funny)

by bobdotorg ( 598873 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @06:38PM (#23846695)

Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?

Oh, FSCKING JEBUS. Why does some nitwit have to make everything about Apple?!

Hint to Steve Jobs genuflecting tards: No, life is not all about Apple. No go outside and get some fresh air. Now.

Wow. Get some air. You're right. And it's a really nice day out. Head on out and get some air.

You just gave me an excellent idea. I'll just pop out to the Apple Store and get a MacBook Air.

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Re:Jennifered? (Score:5, Funny)

by Matt Perry ( 793115 ) writes: <perry.matt54@ya[ ].com ['hoo' in gap]> on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @07:19PM (#23847215)

Now, where can I find this Jennifer and, most importantly, is she still doing it?
She took down her site, but you can call her at 867-5309 and ask if she has some DVDs.

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Re:Jennifered? (Score:5, Funny)

by CopaceticOpus ( 965603 ) writes: on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @08:59PM (#23848425)

victoria secret's first streamed show had issues.
Luckily, most of these issues were caught by tissues!

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naming this effect? (Score:5, Funny)

You learn something new every day (Score:5, Funny)

Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Israel we bless thee HEIL HITLER (Score:3, Funny)

Re:naming this effect? (Score:3, Funny)

Tiger effect? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:naming this effect? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Well that doesn't explain... (Score:3, Funny)

Oops. (Score:3, Funny)

Nail-biting victory? (Score:5, Funny)

firefox (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:naming this effect? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Office bandwith (Score:5, Funny)

Re:naming this effect? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Nail-biting victory? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Tiger effect? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Better Days... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Not Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? (Score:3, Funny)

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